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March 23, 1943
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General Rainfall YANKS
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Snaps off Drouth
Gentle early morning rains that ended one of the driest
winter seasons since 1914 continued to fall over most of W est
Texas this morning, bringing joy to farmers and ranchers
alike.
& The rain—first general fall since—early December—
brought perhaps the greatest relief to stockmen, who, ham-
pered by lack of sufficient protein feeds, were entering a
critical stage.
Come April 1 it will be lambing, kidding and calving time
on most ranches. Losses would have been terrific without
the precipitation, which will start grass and weeds to grow-
ing.
Hopes for a wheat crop- were revived, while there are
chances of a small crop of oats. Local grain growers pointed
to 1937 as another year when
Ohe rains came late and a
bumper wheat crop was har-
vested.
1 2.52 INCHES HERE
By 1 p. m. the rain in Abilene |
ayas" gauged at 2.52 inches with |
some still not measured. That brings
the year’s total fall to 3.07 inches,
which compares with a normal fall
of 2.91 inches for the period. Prior
to the current precipitation, only
05 of an inch had been received
- 29 inch in January, .05 inch in
February and .18 in Maren.
The rain seemed to be general,
extending to Fort Worth on the
east, to Oklahoma City on the
gjorth, and well over the area west
and south of here. :
, Victory gardeners had reason to
rejoice after the added percipita-
tion and friut growers predicted a
better than usual crop. Reports
from Clyde and Fisher county-
Owo fruit growing sectors—indicat-
- ed only a small percentage of the
fruit was killed by severe cold spells
several weeks ago. Apples, grapes,
berries and other late - blooming
varieties seemed assured of a good-
yield unless there is another cold
spell.
T. H. Roensch, Fisher county
agent, said fruit trees in the Royston
sector,, already are in full bloom
and that the rain was “just what
tre doctor ordered.” An inch-rain
Covered that county and was still
falling.
i WATER SHORTAGE ABATED
A serious water shortage was re-
lieved in Scurry, Borden and Kent
counties, Leon Guinn, Snyder
Gewspaperman, reported this morn-
ing. Some people in that area al-
ready were hauling water for house
use, and ranchmen were concerned
about the shortage of stock water.
Wheat growers in the Hamlin
area were rejoicing after an inch-
See RAINS, Pg. 3, Col. 5
Murray ASKS
Worker Plan
WASHINGTON, March 24(UP)
—President Philip Murray of the
Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tions Wednesday called for prompt
enactment of the Tolan-Pepper-
Kilgore war mobilization bill as the
most effective method of bringing
all the nation’s material and hu-
man resources into the war effort.
N
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■SS British Cling to
STUKA DIVE BOMBER DOWNED BY AN AMERICAN PILOT—This Ju87—Stuka dive
bomber—was downed by an American airm an after the enemy plane dive-bombed U. S.
infantry somewhere in Tunisia. (AP Telema t)
Russians Wipe Out Nazi Bulge
Murray told the Senate’s Truman
committee that the CIO is "unal-
terably opposed" to the Austin-
Wadsworth National service bill,
now being considered by the Senate _ . .: .
military affairs committee. 11 1 T A A •
He was the first witness as the T r 1ms L saIL 1 ms LsgAL
SmimEE =. ===- ON Last bon 01 One ver
effort. President William Green of I I I U 1
the American Federation of Labor
and President John L. Lewis of the
United Mine Workers also are sche-
duled to appear.
Murray declared that lack of
a coordinated program for the
most effective utilization of all
the nation’s resources has been
the chief hindrance to the war
effort to date. The CIO, he
said, has been urging a coor-
dinated over-all program since
long before Pearl Harbor.
"It is axiomatic that such nation-
al mobilization requires a central-
ized civilian coordinated policy of
all the resources and economic poli-
cies of the nation. It is therefore our
considered judgment that to meet
our obligations and the need of
the United Nations, this Congress
should enact into law the Tolan-
Pepper-Kilgore bill."
Four Killed in Plane
ALLIED AIRMEN BATTER
JAPANESE PLANE PACKS
Germans Find Mareth Village
WITH THE UNITED STATES ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, March
FORCES IN SOUTHERN TUNI- 24—(AP)—Concerted countersmashes by Axis
SIA, March 23—(Delayed)—(P)— " n
Butchers Rush Crash Near Midland
MIDLAND, March 24—(P)— Four
men killed in a plane crash four
miles south of the Midland AAF
bombardier school Monday night
were listed by the school’s public
relations department Tuesday night
as:
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN was smashed Tuesday by
AUSTRALIA, -__- - +, ---___-__-_- --___
growing concentration of Japanese I at Rabaul, New Britain, in which
air power in the southwest Pacific more than 250 Nipponese fighter
- I and bomber craft felt the weight of
... 54 tons of explosives and incendi-
MIGAV Airman aries. Allied headquarters announ-
AIlilIQII ced Wednesday.
" | Reconnaissance discovered the
A ITsI massed planes Monday and the
T in -651 -IA bomber fleet went to work on it in
RaDaull Raid ----------------
Capt. Charles H. Giddings, former
Munday, Tex, resident who recent-
wy was awarded the Silver Star, was
one of 23 Allied fliers mentioned
_ _____..._____.- .. a pre-
March 24.—(P)—A dawn bombing of three airdromes
To City Abattoir
. Local butchers and meat store op-
serators Tuesday took steps toward
using the 38,000-pound additional
meat quota granted Abilene by the
OPA.
They bought 46 head of butcher
cattle at the auction sale and 30
dogs—so many that the city abat-
toir was expected to be unable to
get all of them slaughtered Wed-
nesday.
With regular butchers buying
only a few head because of what
they described as “too high a live-
freight price and too low ceiling on
dressed meat,” market operators
stenned into the market to buy
their own meat.
Local buyers took 20 head of
‘ choice butcher cattle out of a con-
Gignment of 30 from Roscoe. The
steers weighed around 925 pounds
on foot and sold from $14.25 to
$14.50 per cwt.
by an Associated Press dispatch as
participating in raids on three Ra-:
baul airdromes.
Captain Giddings’ wife now lives
| at Wichita Falls.
• THE WEATHER
Second Lt. Rees H. Davies, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Davies, So-
pris, Colo.
Second Lt. Frank . O’Connor,
son of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. O’Con-
nor, Kansas City, Mo.
Cadet Paul Browning Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Browning, Green-
ville, S. C.
Cadet George P. Hollock Jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. George P. Hollock,
Jersey City, N. J.
WASHINGTON, March 24.-
(AP)—Japanese planes caused
“some material damage” to the
American airfield on Guadal-
canal island in the Solomons
during an attack Tuesday night,
the Navy disclosed Wednesday.
an hour-long raid before daylight
Tuesday "in the face of fierce anti-
aircraft and searchlight barrages
x x * in a series of coordinated
strikes,” the communique said.
Not an Allied bomber was lost
although some were damaged, and
a 10,000 ton transport was added
to the bag when returning bombers
Reds Rolling
On Smolensk
MOSCOW, March 24(AP)
—The Red army clung ten-
aciously Wednesday to its po-
sitions on the northern Donets
river, beating back every ef-
fort of the Germans to estab-
lish themselves on the eastern
bank, and on the central front
Soviet troops plunged on to-
ward Smolensk, capturing
more settlements in their ad-
vance.
CROSS IN FORCE
The Germans crossed the Donets
river in force east of Belgorod Tues-
day night, but the midnight com-
munique reported they were driven
back from a town they had seized
on the eastern side of the river.
There have been no indications
that such a mass crossing has been
repeated during the last few hours
although there have been more at-
tempts.
Smith Injured in
Highway Collision
AUSTIN, March 24.—(P>-Lieut.-
Gov. John Lee Smith suffered two
broken ribs Tuesday night when his
automobile was in collision with a
parked vehicle on the Austin-Gra-
ham highway. He was returning
from a speaking engagement in
Graham.
sighted it off Cape Gazelle and set
it afire, it was declared.
The enemy planes were nested at
Lakunai, Bunakanau and Rapope
airdromes.
TONNERS DROPPED
"Fifty-four tons of bombs rang-
ing from 2,000-pounders to frag-
mentation incendiaries were drop-
Meat Rationing
ts MTRSSNERCE Turn to page 2 for com-
he mto-"ep, ” bread*" plete list of rationing
@ABILENE and vicinity: Intermittent points you will use for
Tain and scattered thunderstorms Wednes- - - -
day afternoon and night: cooler Wednes- 1
day night
EAST TEXAS (east of 100th meridian):
Intermittent rain and scattered thunder
storms Wednesday afternoon and night;
**at- —aperature change Wednesday night,
ooler in northwest portion Fresh
CAPTAIN GIDDINGS
At the time Captain Giddings was
decorated for gallantry, his wife
received a letter of commendation
from Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney,
commander of the Fifth air force in
purchase of meat, butter,
cheese and shortening be-
ginning Monday, March
29.
the Southwest Pacific.
Captain Giddings is a native of
Burns, Tex., and received his edu-
cation at the Roy, N. M., high school
and Kansas State college He en-
tered the air forces in 1939.
ped on runways, dispersal areas, in-
stallations, searchlights and gun po-
sitions for one and a half hours,"
the communique stated.-"Fires im-
mediately broke out in all the tar-
get areas, rising and multiplying as
our aircraft increased their pres-
sure, columns of smoke reaching
thousands of feet into the air.”
It was indicated that a sub-
stantial proportion of the Jap-
anese plane pack was destroyed
or damaged, as “congested air-
craft on the ground were re-
peatedly hit.”
Gasmata airdrome, on the south-
ern shore of New Britain, also was
the target for two attacks the same
night. .
The Soviet noon communique
said that the Red army on the
western front—which had been
described as the central front
before the concerted drive for
Smolensk developed—continued
its offensive, capturing several
villages and wiping out a force
of German rapid-fire riflemen
surrounded in a forest north of
Dukhovschino.
The Russians also were reported
to have taken several other settle-
ments in other sectors of their push
toward Smolensk and to have seiz-
ed a tactically important line.
NAZI LOSSES HIGH
Heavy losses were inflicted again
upon the Germans in the Belgorod
area when the Soviet troops smash-
ed a German truck column and de-
stroyed trucks, tanks and fuel
wagons
| The 50 miles stretch of the twist-
• WEST TEXAS (west of 100th meridian) : | , , , , . Any
Showers Wednesday in Panhandle, South |I ICICI ITADC A A
Plains, Del Rlo-Eagle Pass area and eastiLA MAK 1 MAP
of Pecos river: little temperature change LLOILAIUK) AOI
Wednesday night except cooler in El Paso W • lie • REE V ‘ Tie • E
area, Big Bend country, Pacos valley and
SOWLY ON POSTWAR PLANS
Wednesday ........1.13 Inches"" - - 1 % - t • • 1A49 - -11
Total amount for same period last
year :........91 inch WASHINGTON, March 24—PP)-
Normal amount since first of the . . ._.
year .....................2.91 inches Confronted by half A dozen resolu-
"mewelnean,r * "882 - | tions aimed at “winning the peace"
...i-22" .temperature Tuenday: City of- and preventing future wars, mem-
morning: City office, bers of the Senate foreign relations
committee - ednesday considered
the advisat of errs ting a large
subcommittee to b 1 them down.
Plainly aware that every
Sentence Assessed
In Soldier Slaying
PALO PINTO, March 24. P
Ed Brown, 47, was given three yean
in the penitentiary Wednesday by
a jury which found him guilty of
Lowest Wednesday
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move they make may arouse
the widest repercussions, the
committeemen approached
Wednesday’s meeting with a
make haste slowly attitude.
1 ‘ (R-Minn) and Burton (R-Ohio)
who have proposed that the United
States initiate conversations among
the United Nations to win the war,
assist in the economic rehabilita-
tion of war ravaged countries, and
establish machinery for the peace-
ful settlement of futur. internation-
al disputes, backed up by a United
Nations military force.
Senators Maybank (D-SC) and
Breswster (R-Me joined in radio
speeches Tuesday night in support
of the Hill-Hatch-Burton-Ball pro-
posal, which they said would open
the way to a full discussion of post-
war problems by the American peo-
ple as well as by the representa-
tives in Congress.
. ---------~ ..a armor and in-
fantry created a very confused situation Wednesday where
"We’re a hell of a gang to tangle units of the British Eighth army were rammed into the
with. Just follow us and see."Mareth line, but in the El Guetar sector-tieithe
is in a decided reverse against American tanks and troops threaten-
ing Marshal Erwin Rommel’s lifeline to northern Tunisia.
.In extremely, hard fighting the British who had driven a
bridgehead through the Mareth line in a frontal assault
near the coast succeeded in repulsing all’ efforts of the Ger-
mans to dislodge them from the area of Mareth village, an
Allied headquarters communique said Wednesday.
East of El Guetar where Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton,
Jr. and his Americans were within an hour’s drive of the
sea, dispatches from the front said the Americans from their
positions in the hills on either side of a narrow pass had
poured artillery fire into a force of some 100 German tanks,
destroying from 10 to 30 of them.
In London, meanwhile. Prime Minister Churchill told -
the House of Commons that Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom-
ery’s Eighth army had lost most of its bridgehead through
the Mareth line as a result of the counterattacks of Rommel,
and that the Axis defense lines in that sector were largely re-
stored.
Adolf Hitters panzers 1
those were more than words in a
song to an embattled United States
infantry division which in the yel-
low desert mountains and in a
flower-studed valley smashed back
the Nazi attempt to break through
at El Guetar from the Gabes bot-
tleneck.
After knocking out more than
30 of a force of some 100 Ger-
Mark VI’s thrown against
them. United States infantry
Rangers’ anti-tank and artil-
lery units held stubbornly to
the rock-walled foxholes des-
pite one of the most sustained
day -long artillery and air bomb-
ing attacks put on by the Ger-
mans in the Tunisian campaign.
The engagement was on grand
scale, with the American infantry
camped in the mountains a few
miles east of El Guetar, a desert
oasis. The Germans were com-
pelled to try to break through on
the ridges and down on the valley
while under a deadly counter ar-
tillery fire.
The Germans failed and that
failure—for they threw in ev-
erything they had—is a measure
of greatness of the spirit forged
in battle by the United States
army which is growing more
powerful every day.
In foxholes on a forward ridge
being swept by 88-millimeter ar-
tillery fire I talked during the bat-
tle lulls with the men who stuck
See RANGERS, Pr. 3, Col. 1
RAF, Luftwaffe
Trade Punches
LONDON, March 24—(P)—Trading
punches with the Germans across
the English channel. Allied airmen
struck again Wednesday morning at
enemy targets in northern France
as Nazi warplanes resumed hit-and-
run raids on coastal districts of
Britain.
Heavy explosions west of
Bologne rocked houses in the
Folkestone area after forma-
tions of Allied planes had
streaked across the channel.•. i
The burst of daylight activity
provided a follow-up to night at-
tacks by RAP fighters on railway
communications in northwest Ger.
RADIO ALGIERS REPORTS GAIN
(Mareth village is about 20 miles from Gabes behind the Mareth line.
Early" broadcasts from the Algiers radio Wednesday reported that ad-
vanced elements of Montgomery’s forces were within 13 miles of Gabes,
but these reports were not supported by any other source and were in
contradiction to the statement of Prime Minister Churchill who said
he spoke from information later than that published in morning news-
papers.
(German military spokesmen were quoted in Berlin broadcasts as ad-
mitting that Montgomery’s army had temporarily penetrated into the
Mareth line at one place. but said the break had been “ironed out."
(The spokesman said, however, that only the “overture” of the “great
British offensive is behind us." It was claimed that 44 British tanks had
been destroyed and prisoners captured.),
While the frontal assault of Gen. Montgomery had run into a terrific
struggle which was not minimized by headquarters spokesmen, the loop-
ing drive of his detachments which circled Rommel’s inland flank gained
about two miles in the smash toward El Hamma, Axis air base and
oasis crossroads 20 miles west of Gabes and at the wetern end of the bot-
tleneck between the Chott Djerid salt lake and the sea.
YANKS PUSH PAST MAKNASSY
These forces drove the Germans off the high ground of Djebel Tebaba
despite strong armored opposition and reached a point only eight miles
from El Hamma.
(This fighting was taking place about 30 miles north of the main
battle at Mareth, well to the rear of the Axis positions.)
American infantry and tankmen by holding Guettaria pass east of
El Guetar on the southerly road from Gafsa toward the sea, saved Gen.
Patton’s armored forces beyond Maknassy on the northerly road from
Gafsa from a threat to their rearward communications.
This enabled the northerly column to win Bon Douaou, a point six
miles beyond Maknassy and only 28 miles from the enemy’s coastal road.
This column took a number of Italian prisoners.
The Patton force defending Guettaria pass 10 miles southeast of El
Guetar was officially reported to have destroyed 10 enemy tanks, but
front reports said 20 more were knocked out. An Italian encampment of
200 men was captured.
many and occupied territory.
As t Allied daylis: raiders kept DDITICL I INIDED UEAUV ATTACY
up a regular shuttle service across OKT INOFi Y K
narrow Dover strait high-flying. DINI I I I UNLLA I ILA V I MII HAUN
Germans, using the mist as cover.
crossed the British coast to bomb
a locality in the southeast.
At least eight locomotives were
Gen. Montgomery had not been able to advance his wedge driven into
the Mareth line near Zarat, six miles northeast of Mareth and was still
under heavy counterattack from both German and Italian infantry sup-
| ported by armor.
The communique announced, however, that 2,001 prisoners had been
reported shot 1 in the forays.
Tuesday afternoon RAF Mosqui-
to bombers attacked the St. Joseph | captured there so far
The Allied air offensive reached a new peak Tuesday as American
locomotive works near Nantes, an
air ministr, communique announc-
ed Tuesday night. Returning pilots
reported they saw bombs explode
in the very center of the factory,
one i the 1 ig: eat producers of elec-
tric and steam locomotives in
ing, turning Donets river between
Chuguev and Belgorod is seeing
some of the most bitterly-fought,
coordinated infantry and tank at-
tacks of the Russian-German war.
The German air force continued France.
No planes were reported lost in
the Nante raid. . |
its activity over this front, repeat-
edly raiding the Russian positions
but getting a taste of fire, too.
There have been several crossings
of the northern Donets by the Ger-
mans and always they have been in
force but never have the Russians 24.—(P)—The
Mrs. Coolidge Better
NORTHHAMPTON, Mass.. March
condition of Mrs
permitted them to remain on the Grace Coolidge, widow of former
eastern bank for more than a few President Calvin Collidge, was re-
hours. ported “considerably imporved" to-
Apparently, too.. the Red army day at the Cooley-Dickinson hospi-
was still holding several sectors on tal.
the west bank of the Donets. For
, the last few days there have been
murder of Sergeant John Boland of | no reports from the elbow of the
Camp Barkeley. | river, in the Izyum sector, but there
Brown, husband and father of six is no reason to presume that right,
children, and Herbert Whitlock were ing has slackened in this area
arrested a’ter they haengaged in where the Germans suffered severe,
an altercation with Boland and ly in an ambitious attempt to storm
Corp. Kenneth Chipman, also of across the still ley stream
Camp Barkeley, near Mingus last ‘
January 9. Boland, whose home was Axie Shipping Hit
in Duluth, Minu., died of his wounds AXIS amipping nir
"wmuon * convicidor com. LONDON. March 24-0-Bm
plicity Boland’s death March 17 ish light coastal forces, continuing
and a jury fixed his sentence at 40 their assaults on enemy shipping
years along the continental coasts, serious-
Brown testified that Whitlock was ly damaged at least one escort ves-
guilty of the stabbing. He said that sel and hit two other vessels by
he was knocked out during the al-gunfire Tuesday off Terschelling.
tercation and did not know what | The Netherlands, an ‘ Admiralty
happen d after ward. communique said today.
tal.
STOP and THINK
Your words are as beautiful
as you are.—Chicago Heiress,
receiving thanks from Mme.
Chiang Kaf-Shek for having
given $100,000 to be spent for
the children of China.
I have seen the travail, which
God h t. given to the sons of
men to he exercised in it. He
‘ hath made everything beauti-
ful in his time: also he hath
set the world in their heart, so
that no man cas find out the
work that God * keth from the
beginning to the end.—Eccles-
lastes 3:10-11. •
Fortresses escorted by Lightnings raided the Bizerte docks.
(The Italian high command said that 40 Allied tanks had been de-
stroyed in fierce fighting which was continuing in central and southern
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WHERE BATTLE RAGES—Field reports said parts of the
British Eighth Army had swept around the Mareth line of
fortifications and were facing German concentrations near
El Hamma, west of the port of Gabes. To the north Ameri-
cans captured Maknassy in a drive toward the sea and fought
off fierce counterattacks. Arrows indicate Allied moves.
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